umount

Force Umount if Busy

by Ulysses · Sep 16, 2019

If device is busy and you can’t umount it, try it with -l option (lazy unmount). Or you can force it.

# standard
umount /mnt/data
# lazy umount
umount -l /mnt/data
# force
umount -f /mnt/data

Lazy unmount is safer since it will detach immediately and clean up all references to the file system. Force is a bit more drastic.

by Ulysses · Feb 1, 2019

Here’s the command to mount and unmount AWS EFS. Assuming the EFS IP address is 10.0.0.23.

Mount:

mount -t nfs -o nfsvers=4.1,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,hard,timeo=600,retrans=2,noresvport 10.0.0.23:/ /efs

Umount:

# lazy unmount
umount -l /efs
# force unmount
umount -f /efs

You may have to force it if it’s busy.